✅️ Small-government conservative
✅️ Surviving on government benefits
Deal with it, Libby.
Submitted 2 weeks ago by MTZ@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I see you’ve met my inlaws.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“I want a government so small it only has 1 function… Giving money to creepy inbred racists”
IvyisAngy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
God I think I know where that is…
Or these fuckers are all so similar I can’t tell them apart.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Drive through Georgia or Alabama. Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V
iamericandre@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bruh you missed Virginia, both Carolina’s, Kentucky and Tennessee
arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Growing up in GA I didn’t truly understand southern poverty until I drove through Mississippi and Louisiana
mellibird@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
Or the Carolinas. I’ve seen plenty of places like that around there too
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fuck you, FEMA! But also, help me, FEMA!
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They spend all their money on guns, ammo, and red maga hats - what did you expect in Biden’s Economy? /s about the last part
thewebroach@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Inflation is at an all time high - FTFY
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
psh what are you talking about it’s only 4% this month
mech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
“We don’t call 911 in this house. Cause the phone’s disconnected, there’s no mobile reception, and we can’t afford Starlink.”
TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
That’s a barn, right?
Not a place where humans actually live, right? Right?PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The majority of rural Conservatives live like this.
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A surprising amount of of urban conservatives in ghettos also live like this. Even if other houses in the area dont look like this somehow theirs do a lot of times
A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Jeez, no wonder they are so grumpy
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I know where several houses are, in my rural county, that look just like this with minor variations.
blarghly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Honestly, I’d be stoked to own a house like this. Tin roof will last 60+ years with no maintenance. Classic country aesthetic with a nice big front porch. Nice woods to walk around in. Bonus points if it has a wood fire stove - free fuel when I do fire mitigation on the property, and when I’m out of that, pellets are dirt cheap. Obviously the decor could use an update, and some paint would be a nice touch. Though… if the siding is still in good shape, I think maybe a nice summer oak stain would make it look real nice. Then build some bird feeders. Bat boxes. Plant some fruit trees. Solar hot water on the roof. Then lay a big sheet of plywood out in the front yard on some cinderblocks as a table and invite all my friends over for a potluck. Drink wine. Play music. Have a bonfire. Good times…
eltrain123@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
On the plus side, if you do have a wood fire stove, the whole house can help you with your bonfire project aspirations. /s
agingelderly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You say all this like you don’t know about mosquitos or the fact that there are probably something like 3 weeks of comfortable weather between groups humidity and dreary rain
frog@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I’ve seen houses like this in Austin, TX. The craziest part is during the pandemic they could’ve sold that house for $750K.
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
Let me tell you the story of what you’re looking at. Once upon a time, that area was part of a larger spread with a nice home for its time (not pictured) where the farmer lived. As family sizes lessened and the children moved off to the city or were sent off and didn’t return from their war, the farmer split his property into smaller lots of a few acres, and either gave them to the children that were around now, flush with money in the post war era, or sold them as per a lot of advice from the locals who called him friend. The nice house where he lived was given to the most loved child, who promised to keep the farm running on the side, but only if it was smaller so it could still be done in between the normal day job (where he was probably the owner, using the booming economy as they all did to start businesses that didn’t need to be amazing to succeed).
Eventually, those smaller lots had houses built in the style of simple rustic cabins because the timber was sourced locally, cheaply, and it was the style of the time. The folks moving in were the last of the generation of big families, where small towns were continually expanding. They were still able to get jobs nearby (within an hour or two for most) that paid well enough. They had enough free time and the knowledge (or help from friends with knowledge) to keep the roof up and the wiring neat.
Now we fast forward 30 years. A depression has hit. The kids are grown up, and needing a place to stay. Their jobs don’t pay quite well enough to get a complete house and land. Maybe one or two will move away to a city where the opportunities exist. One of the various lots will have a family with a business that is still successful. Maybe it grows enough that both kids can work in the business and survive. But this house? This house (and tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, more in the county) has a different story. The family business was sold. Maybe one of the kids became an addict. The family won’t spread like ‘usual.’ So one will keep living in the house. Off to the side of the picture, about fifty yards, is a doublewide trailer where the other lives. Some of those situations will stabilize. The doublewide will be taken care of, the older house will be refitted with better insulation, appliances, expanded in some areas.
But we can see what will happen the vast majority of the time. It’s 30 years later, again. The nearby factory closed up, the interstate rerouted traffic from the old highway, and the area stagnated. Now, 25 yards out of the picture, is a towed trailer with a bed and sink that the grandkid lives in. A second trailer is tucked under the tree that grew behind the doublewide, where Danny, the other grandchild, and Leslie, his on-again, off-again baby momma, can be heard screaming at each other every night. The house has decayed now, it’s interior slowly filled with bric-a-brac that is refused to be thrown out because it has the nostalgia of when they didn’t worry about money every day. The toilets haven’t been replaced in 45 years; the refrigerator is precariously leaning because the side was hastily patched with plastic and jb weld and the foot can’t be put back or the weak plastic will break. The window curtains rotted, and they put up the garbage bags to keep the sun out, and then realized it also kept the wind from blowing rain inside. Sometimes, the well pump doesn’t like to run, so they collect what water they can just in case.
Meanwhile, that nice farmhouse? It still sits on several dozen acres, or might even be part of a mostly functional ranch now (because ag exemptions mean low taxes!). The few hundred in the county have been mostly sold though, as the rich want to find a place “away from the city” and its ‘crime’ and ‘dirty air.’ The ones that are still lived in are the few remaining businessmen, who now have all the restaurants, remaining stores, and often run the local part of an oil and gas company.
Ninety percent of the local politicians live in those houses. Sometimes a few small positions will come from the weird, not-quite-urban neighborhoods that were built just outside of the county seat’s city limits. And those politicians? They tell the people who live in the house pictured that trump will bring back the factory jobs, and improve their lives, and they sit back and laugh all the way to the bank.
So, yes, this is where humans live. The corruption of the system is built from the ground up. When poverty is the majority the corrupt have a large amount of power, and they love it. And this is the majority. Get off the main highway in any rural county, and it’s just like the picture, but stacked in rows of hundreds. Just look at satellite imagery outside of urban areas.
merdaverse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Stock markets go up, but most of that wealth is transferred to capitalists:
LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Shithole country
dihutenosa@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Hard to tell from this distance, but the roof looks nice and waterproof!
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Insulation looks like a solid rating of “no” though.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The same people that say the economy is shit because life’s hard and they can’t get ahead are the same ones that point out that the president says the economy is doing great whenever someone criticizes him.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Doublespeak
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Hypocrisy.”
canniest_tod@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, but most Trump sign houses are suburban McMansions and historic urban estates. Like we keep saying, the die hard MAGA people are thoroughly bourgeois and have been all their lives.
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I would kill to own a house though lol.
Even this one.
Donkter@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was going to say. If I lived there there wouldn’t be nearly as much trash on the lawn and it’s honestly pretty cozy
r8KNzcU8TzCroexsE2xbWC@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Fuck trump supporters and whatnot, but I cannot help but feel this image is making fun of people for being impoverished. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Believe it’s the point of the post. Voting for someone who supports pulling money from the impoverished and giving it to the ultra-rich… While being impoverished.
The fact that 90% of the population isn’t voting against corporate Democrats and Republicans who support the current taxation and distribution of money that supports just 10% of the population to thrive and the rest to struggle is terrible. But they spend millions on advertising and billions on other media venues to push the agenda to protect the status quo.
r8KNzcU8TzCroexsE2xbWC@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I get it, but on the list of reasons any Trump supporter is reprehensible, being poor isn’t one of them
bluefootedbooby@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
It is not making fun of people for being impoverished, it is making fun of people for voting against their interest, and thinking that by doing so they are ‘owning the libs’
bcgm3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Winning!”
the_armchair_potato@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hilarious 😂
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Democrats need to be better if they’re going to do this.
Everyone remembers the Harris campaign pulling the same “Shut up about how you can’t afford groceries! The economy is great (for billionaires)” shit.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think you’re reading too much into it. It’s just a meme about how people can be tricked into thinking that enriching others who keep them poverty is “winning”.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think that it’s impossible to gaslight people out of poverty, no matter which party is doing so. I think it would be nice to have a party that intended to help the poor instead of one party that hates them and another party that spent 4 years finding every excuse to not help them.
The latter party is in no position to dunk on the former. Until democrats fix their shit, I don’t care how full of themselves they are about all the help they worked so hard to block when they were in office.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
For a second I thought you were coming after the Overdrive app.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So true
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
'Muricans gonna be happy as long as they can put a 'murica flag on something.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Can we make a counter-Epstein conspiracy?
ccunning@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Image
“Don’t even bother talking to me if you don’t have a rainwater collection and processing system for the apocalypse”
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Literally the same bucket setup from 28 Days later